Susan paints her toenails As an offering to the Mets And to death You can't edit death Only you can audit it and even this Is doubtful or artful Or even awful Or allfull of all these Pleasures either decrease or increase At the edge near the end These speculations may be easy for me Who have no such expectations for the moment As far as he knows And he thinks about it frequently Certain times of the day Without morbidity, more curiosity, expectation Like the thrill of each grandstand-bound Foul ball when you feel that certainly The next will land in your glove Home is where the heart is And this Is just a lump of flesh Kat thinks It's all her fault But it's not anyone's fault It is no fault Yet what you do Absolutely matters

Norman gives the ninth and final talk of the Layman P'ang 2018 series on several concluding poems ...Norman Fischer, 02/28/18

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